Selected quad for the lemma: sin_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
sin_n	death_n	life_n	wage_n	10,497	5	10.9120	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28152	A word of reproof and advice to my late fellow-souldiers and officers of the English, Irish, and Scotish army with some inrhoad made upon the hireling and his mass-house, university, orders, degrees, vestments, poperies, heathenism, &c. : with a short catalogue of some of the fighting priests and ... have given them a blow in one of their eyes (pickt out of the whores head) which they call a fountain of religion but is a sink of iniquity ... / by E.B.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2903; ESTC R23695	86,580	98

no Saints that are not cleansed purged washed and sanctified throughout ye are cleansed ye are washed ye are sanctified throughout and as he is so are we in this present World and he that fails to witness this condition on this side the grave though he may be covinced of the very truth it self he may be called but never chosen Friends it is a high state yea the very highest on this side the grave I do not say its impossible not to faile and alone to live move and do all to and for the praise and glory of God and to live and abide in the infallible and not to fail but as the Lords witnesse I declare it He who lives and dies in his sins imperfections and failings doth fail and falls short of that Kingdom where the imperfect or impure cannot enter for its the pure in heart that sees God but the wicked he beholds a far off and the sinner cannot stand before the righteous God in judgement wherefore as many as be perfectly minded work out your salvation with fear and trembling for the night cometh wherein no man can work And there is another sort of idle people who say Christ hath taken away the guilt of sin but not the presents of sin Oh! seared conscience that hath no guilt for sin I do not say he hath taken the Devil out of Hell or J●das from his own place neither do I say or think the Devil doth at this day cease to seek whom he may devour Nay I know he is the Prince of the power of the air and the Kingdom of darkness is his Sodom is his throne and Egypt and the dwellers there are altogether within his Dominion Mystery-Babylon her Merchants are his own all the children of disobedience to all who live in the mistery of iniquity he is a Law-maker also I say he is a roaring Lion and continually seeketh whom he may devour and the most upright that is or ever was upon the earth he may tempt yea Christ himself as the words of the Divel recorded in Scripture do testifie but it s no sin to be tempted but the sin is to yeeld to and do the will of the temptor and commit the sin but blessed are they who stand in the power and fear of the Lord and endure the temptation Adam was never accursed until he had yeelded taken and eaten so its sin acted and the purpose of your corrupt hearts to sin if not grose yet little sins and at least to have your failings tearm of life and that 's it which hinders the union keeps ye in the unbelief and separates betwixt ye and your maker and the wages of s●n is death and such as ye sow such shall ye reap and if with the hands which are defiled and not in the pure hope which is perfect ye plow and sow corruption What can ye expect to reap or be in the harvest or day of the Lord when he makes up his jewels but tares corruption or reprobate silver and of failings and imperfection ye can reap no other thing for according to your faith so will it be unto ye and failings will fail to be saved or enter into the rest of him that is unfallible and without fail saves all those that come unto him by faith and a good conscience void of offence towards God and man mark a good conscience towards God and void of offence towards man not striking spilling of blood or reaping ca●nals where they have sow● neither spiritual nor carnal And although imperfection is the practice and general preached and received doctrine of the Church of England so called I utterly deny it neither do I trust to be saved as they believe but I believe they will take it ill if I should say they who believe th●y may live and die in some failings should not go to Heaven or if I should say that is the Hypocrites hope and will fail But I do say if they say its the true hope or living faith which is of God in by which the Just lives or if that he which lives and intends to die in some failings sayes the Lord lives with Jeremiah I say he or they swear falsly But if we continue faithful or full of faith in our measures to the end we shall be saved without fail for he that is in us is greater then he that is in the World and he that abides in him is pure without failings and the wicked one cannot touch him though he may attempt it hourly for a stronger then he keeps the house and he cannot enter but by our consents otherwise the whole creation of mankind would be the Divels for he is the enemy of mankind and his nature is to devour but the true light which doth enlighten every man that cometh into the World and the ligh● with which every man is enlightened comprehends the darknesse but the Divel and darknesse cannot comprehend the light for he that is in us is far greater then he and is quick and powerful and divides betwixt the pretious thoughts and the vile before they come to actions I say if the watch be kept and the light believed in which is in ye infallibly is the l●fe of men and shewes man all his sins and failings I say it will discern the thoughts and dash the brains of Babylons children against the wall Yea that brain which invents and deviseth evil and break the cockatrice egg before it is an egg and mischief shall not be hatched or prod●cted and the same is the sure word of prophesie which if ye take heed unto ye may infallibly do well though it be as a light shining in a dark place tell the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts for which wait that ye may be delivered from all your sins and failings and become the Sons of God For as much then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh arm your selves likewise with the same mind for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin 1 Pet. 4. 1. Therefore let the time p●st be si ficient for the end of all things is at hand and to be carnally minded is death And if any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his and if Christ be in ye the bod●●s dead because of sin By a Friend to perfection and a believer in that unfallible Jesus who saves his p●ople from their sins failings and imperfections but a professed enemy to that Hellish doctrine of imperfection E. B. THE END A VVORD To such Rulers and Magistrates who Whip cause or suffer to be whipped the Saints of the most High for Vagabonds among whom there are no Beggers and sends them to Prison for not Swearing and not taking an Oath to abjure that which themselves may be found in and requires Bonds of the upright in heart for the good behaviour a thing which themselves are not truly in for that is no good

Souls for his dishonest gain Oh! who is able to reckon up their deceipts or the number of the innocent that hath and are at this day deceived by them but the Soul which sins shall dye the death for the potter hath power over the clay and though he hide himself in the remotest part of the Garden he will find him out and a vessel of dishonour he shall be and yet after they have sinned he desireth not the death of a sinner although he be dead in sins and trespasses but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live For as I live saith the Lord I will not the death of a sinner Mark of a sinner but the persecutor and he whose tongue is at liberty who defileth his body which is the Temple of the Lord him will God destroy although he be the fattest Bull in Basan or the mightiest Cedar in all Lebanon he is but clay in the hands of the Potter and a vessel of dishonour he will make him But he that liveth in his fear and standeth in his councel and is obedient to the Fathers Commands which are all possible and in no wise grievous him he makes a vessel of honour and he is to him as the apple of his eye Be Holy be Perfect be Just in all your doings all men and let all Mark all that are athirst come and buy milk freely and take of the water of Life without money and without price Oh! Come all and it is in vain to invite them that are predestinated from all Eternity to be damned What I say unto one I say unto all watch and those that are decreed to Hell need not watch but the Lord willeth that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth and he is not like Pharaoh who willed the people to make brick without straw Oh! the Creator doth not so for a measure of himself he hath given to every man to profit withal Mark to all so that if he require the full tale of brick he doth Justly and his doings are Just and he is equal in all his wayes and let not him that is formed though a subject or a King say to him that hath formed Why hast thou made me so But come unto him or look unto him all the ends of the earth and be saved and the Gospel hath been preached to every creature under Heaven and it is he that knowes the Fathers Will and doth it not which shall be beaten but it is impossible that he can do it who never knew it but knowledge is a delitious fruit and pleasant to the eye upon which the reprobate feeds and whom I will I ha●den but first he willeth that all men should be saved or else he might have said except Judas except Pharaoh except Esau except Pilate the Priests friend but Gods enemy Christ knew from the beginning who should betray him Mark he knew it but he did not wil him to do it for if he had it could not have been called treachery in Judas Nay he willeth not the death of a sinner but he willeth that all the ends of the earth should look unto him and be saved that is his Will and purpose for which purpose he hath and doth enlighten every man that cometh into the World that all men through him might believe and be saved Mark and note that he willeth all men I say he did not except Judas Pilate and Pharaoh if they were alive and had not sold themselves to do wickedly for which cause they were given up to a reprobate minde but there is and was some that will not come unto him that they may have life Wherefore such are ordained to condemnation of old but they that come unto him he will in no wise cast off and whom he loves he loves to the end and he that loves him keeps his Commands and he that keeps them not is of the Devil and he that is of the Devil hath no part in him for God and Belial are not one in any one thing neither do they live together and where Jerusalem is Babylon cannot stand and where the Light with which every man is enlightened bears Rule there is no darkness at all and when it is disobeyed if heeded the darkness may be felt Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated before either of those two children had done good or evil Yea the thing Jacob he loved and the thing Esau he hated before either of those two children were begotten or born after the flesh and those two seeds he onely loves and hates at this day and see that there be not a Cain nor an Esau be among ye but let the worm Jacob be cherished for it loves the Light and is the heritage of God but let murtherous Cain although he hath been Prince of the whole City and all hath been called by his sons name and Lord Esau of the mount come under for though there was a time when the seed bowed Jacob's got past and let the elder serve the younger for he sold his Birth-right for his belly Mark he had it A Birth-right or a Right-birth but he sold it and afterwards sought it with tears It was not the earth he wept for although he sold his Birth-right or Right-birth which was immortal for that which was earthly divelish and sensual The great God who created Heaven and Earth willeth that all man-kind should come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved and willeth not the death of one soul of his whole handy-work and the work of his own hands he cannot destroy and that is the infallible and true light the Son of the Father who enlighteneth every individual man and woman that commeth into the World that all through him may believe and be saved it is the particular sins of every particular man and woman that is the cause of death reprobation and c●nd●●n●tion and that soul which sins shall die but for the word Original fin I do not find it in the whole Scriptures but is a contrivance of the false Prophets like unto their baby-baptism but he that believes in the Light of Christ which he is enlightened with and brings all his deeds to the light and dwells and abides in the light and hath the hope in him He purifieth himself as he is pure and the wicked one cannot touch him Again and again I say if a certain and set number from all eternity be predestinated to be saved and damned What doth the hireling preach for or for what hath he his hire I am sure the decrees of the living God are yea and Amen and unalterable And there is another vaine sort of people who are as ignorant as they who say that the Scriptures is the word of God and Mathew Mark Luke and John the Gospel and that the Latin Greek and Hebrew is the Original as for the word which the Scriptures of truth truly declares of he was in the